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Checked ten hives today. This years splits and swarm hives all looked good, most in double deeps (8frame), a couple a deep and a medium, one two deeps and a medium.
One split must be going through a...

If the moths have started to build cocoons, the bees will have a hard time getting them out. The wax moth larva bore into cracks and holes and glue the cocoons in tight. Freezing will kill those. If...

Unless the hive is undergoing supercedure or getting ready to swarm (for who knows what reason), some hives will probably be kicking out adult drones as well as pulling drone brood. I checked ten of...

We've had some real bad wind gusts here with severe thunderstorms and straight line winds over the last 20 years. I use ratchet straps that connect to "t" posts driven into the ground in addition to...

Dr Eric Mussen at UC Davis did some studies on robbing and robbing screens in 2010, I believe. His conclusions were that even though the robbers may come from a hive with a robbing screen, they tend...